USB Projects Hacks

This is a project to interface sensors to an USB port for collecting weather related data such as temperature. The firmware supports many different sensors and interfaces. At the moment, temperature, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure can...

Cubicle Warfare Just Got an Upgrade
The arms race is on. The workplace has become a dangerous place, but once upon a time, it was all a laugh. Back in the day, your workmates chased each other with squirt-guns, then disc-guns. Everybody laughed...

What is really cool about this project is that it uses my new high brightness LEDs that I ordered straight from China and as you can see from the picture they work great for backlighting purposes...
The Final product :
A wall outlet charger for...

Find out how to make a cheap yet quite efficient fan from parts purchased at the dollar store. This fan can be made for about $2 (plus tax). It would be even better if you can get a double ended USB wire, in which case you could make 2 USB fans...

Got your average, lame USB flash drive Yeah...us too. So what did we do
Shoved it in a PEZ dispenser of course.
USB Memory Sticks are nothing new. We all have seen them and surely most of us
have used them too. As we modders are on the quest...

This stuff can be installed on any portable drive, i.e. USB thumbdrive, PDA or an iPod. You can use them at work, school, or any other place where you can plugin your device. While there are more apps for windows users, I tried to include a mac...

Everybody needs a little color in their life! This color changer mixes light from high-power LEDs to create more than 16 million colors. A smooth auto-fader cycles the colors, or you can hook it up to a USB port and control it from your computer. A...

Take your standard web camera. Attach a 12 dollar telephoto lens, and presto, you've got your very own Telescope and you can even record the video, too. Spy on your neighbors, the moon, anything you'd like! Capable of seeing craters on the moon....

In case you somehow used up your four front ports on your PS3, you could always add more ports in the back. Although this video demonstrates how to install more USB's on a PS3, the techniques shown can be applied to basically any standard USB...